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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was less debate" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a situation where there was a reduced amount of debate, but it requires rephrasing for clarity. Example: "In the meeting, there was less debate than expected on the proposed changes."
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There was less debate, however, about who should be awarded the No 1 spot; Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, top the MediaGuardian 100 for the second successive year.
In the early 1900s, there was less debate.
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There is less debate, however, about the fundamental risk that it poses to players' brains.
There may be less debate about what sort of crossings should they be.
Because she does all these things without putting a foot out of place, there is less debate than there should be about what use – if any – 21st-century Britain still has for a crown.
There is less debate on the psychological factors affecting the self-assessment of well-being.
This has perhaps been less debated as the tendency is to attribute operating weakness to cyclical headwinds.
But by breaking with that practice, the host, Fox News, created an atmosphere that was less policy debate, more political rally.
The controversy was less a debate about actual history than an extension of the mid-nineteen-nineties culture war into the nostalgic memories of the Greatest Generation.
But what soon became apparent is that the debate was less a grand debate about genre and literary fiction than a small debate over semantics.
This final debate was less about positions (which will change as surpluses vanish) than impressions.
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